Comment Re:Math (Score 1) 198
On one hand, they are partially correct. Every PC, tablet, phone etc. has a damn calculator these days. Hell, anything that can query google can work as a calculator. At a certain point we are better spent learning why and how to use the math rather than forcing to learn time and again how to perform the calculations by hand.
On the other hand, multiplication is at such a low level, any person who can't do rudimentary multiplication in their head probably shouldn't be passed to the next grade much less graduate. If one can't do simple "Home economics"-type problems in their head (like estimating the cost of purchases or the such) they have been failed by their education.